@AzureD: "I have a 30 page pdf form that says it is in timesnewroman font. I of course have Times New Roman. How do I make illustrator recognize the font? It is looking for a font that does not have spaces inbetween the words. When I load the font up it simply replaces all the characters with ??. I tried renaming my times new roman the same way but it still won't recognize it.
I have Adobe Illustrator CS 2."
    @leftnotracks: "If the font has a different name it is a different font. Illustrator can't know that there's a similar font available. You'll have to use Find Font to change the text to your installed font."
    @AzureD: "If I do that then it simply changes to a different ?? instead. Is there a way to select the font before it loads in the file like InDesign does?"
    @Harron_K_Appleman: "It's not a simple font substitution issue if you're getting ?????s.
Is the PDF file in question available for download somewhere? If not, can you pull off a page of it in Acrobat and post it for users here to test?"
    @MikeSigns: "Hello,
Just like to share my experience with this issue as I too sometime get work that are provided to me from the client in pdf format, and I too sometime get the ???. if possible I try to do the find and replace font technique if the text boxes aren't broken up into sections when I put it into AI, if the text are in section then I'll get spaces in between the words after replacing the font.
What I can do then is delete all the ones that are spaced out but leaving the the very first word or text box and then open up the pdf then hightlight & Copy the text that I need and go back in to AI and paste it in the first text box. Then press the enter key to move whatever text I need to the next line etc. if need be.
If the above don't work I usally contact the client and ask them to provide the font if possible or ask them to turn the text into outline for me to work on. But if it's in outline then that means I won't be able to type if I needed to edit something."
    @Harron_K_Appleman: "      I too sometime get work that are provided to me from the client in pdf
      format...
This is unfortunate. PDF was never intended to be an editable graphics interchange format. However, I understand how these things can happen.
Another thing to try if you have a recent version of Illustrator (v11+ maybe?) is to Place the PDF (one page at a time, of course) into a new document using the Link option. Then, with everything selected, Flatten Transparency, using the 'Convert all text to outlines' option.
While this does not yield editable text, you'll retain the appearance of the original fonts without substitution."
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